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  1. Mad Professor

    Round ball out of fast twist barrel

    Nice shooting with the pp bullets! I've got those GM 1-28" barrels in 50 both 15/16 and 1" , another in 54. Shoot conicals nice.
  2. Mad Professor

    Hawken vs Seneca T/C Rifles

    What about the TC Cherokee? 13/16 bbl?
  3. Mad Professor

    Conical Terminal Performance Research

    3" tree?, 4" might have been exageration. It was close to size of my wrist, and it fell over. Pine and it had a snowload on it. This was in the 1980s before cell phone cameras, so I can't go find the tree. Ron, your exploits at long range BP hunting far exceed mine, and I enjoy your posts...
  4. Mad Professor

    Trail-cam pictures.

    I hunted him never got a shot. Found piles he left that would overfill a 5-gal bucket. He'd come down in the orchard after dark. That cat is biggest I ever saw too. I had a bird feeder next to my deck, and big hollow pine nearby with a grey squirrel condominium inside. One morning got up...
  5. Mad Professor

    Limits of Hard Cast Roundball when hunting

    I remember wayback. "Roundball" was experimenting with marbles. Not greatest for hunting but he shot them like a PRB.
  6. Mad Professor

    Limits of Hard Cast Roundball when hunting

    How about a paper patch all copper bullet? They expand like hell with right point, and can can have a high BC. Loading might be hell? Mods, if this too modern, scratch this post. I'm just floating an idea.
  7. Mad Professor

    Trail-cam pictures.

    Real old ones...
  8. Mad Professor

    Trail-cam pictures.

    Some from the past. Last summer,We had lots of early apple drops
  9. Mad Professor

    Conical Terminal Performance Research

    Yes, Ron sticking with the story. Deer was ~130lb doe at ~ 25yds in a swamp. My 58 525gr max load 90gr FFg. It blew right through the deer like it was not hit. Deer didn't know it was already dead. I had a similar experience with my 54, but didn't kill any trees I know of. Again blew right...
  10. Mad Professor

    Conical Terminal Performance Research

    Ron I've used the Hornady GP in my 58/525gr (owch!) and 54/425gr. They do flatten out but I've rarely recovered one from a deer. That mushrooming just like a PRB means the energy is getting transfered. As long as the bullet gets to vitals that's fine, even without a pass through. Were not...
  11. Mad Professor

    Conical Terminal Performance Research

    I have a Renegade with a 50 cal 1-28 GM barrel. Years ago I picked a 720 rd case of Buffalo Bullets for $40. They are 385gr and similar to Hornady GP bullets. I found 70 80 and 90gr (maxload) FFg, with the bullet seated on a wonder wad all shot excellent. Recoil was noticeably more when...
  12. Mad Professor

    Ever shoot a stuck ball...what happened?

    I've shot a stuck ramrod. A few grains of powder through nipple hole then aim straight up. Reminded me of time as a kid doing that with arrows... BTW, 50 grains is way too much, could bulge the barrel if the ball is not seated
  13. Mad Professor

    How many of your rifles have killed deer?

    58 Lyman and 54 Renegade. First ML deer was with the Lyman in the 1980s Others I've not taken hunting deer. One is a rack queen a 54 TC hawken with unfired NOS 1-66 barrel, a 50 Renegade that's only been out a few times, and 12ga TC with a Toledo full choke bird barrel.
  14. Mad Professor

    REPAIRING A TC RENEGADE STOCK

    This thread has been a good read. I've got a renegade that had a similar crack. Good glue has held up, so far...
  15. Mad Professor

    Investarms

    Lyman sold some in 62 cal smooth bore. I've got one w/58 rifled and 62 smooth.
  16. Mad Professor

    Hunter Harassment

    One winter I was hunting my own land, sat down my back to a big cherry tree, overlooking one on my wood roads. A woman, I'd never seen before, on cross country skis approaches up the road with her dog. She was oblivious to me in my pumpkin suit just off the wood road, her dog wasn't. He was a...
  17. Mad Professor

    Conical bullets best suited for Thompson Center shallow grooves 1/48" barrels.

    Do we know even what caliber OP is using? Hornady GPH bullets were designed for TC hawkins/renegades 1-48" barrels. They shoot good, but large cal are NLA. Wonderous wads help. My bullet shooters I use GM 1-28" twist barrels so I won't go futher, except my 58. The 58 is a Lyman 1-48" that...
  18. Mad Professor

    advice not taken

    Sage advice. NEVER GO HUNTING WITH HIM!!
  19. Mad Professor

    Black Squirrels

    Do black squirrels matter? In the crock pot? It don't matter if they are in my berries/orchard/garden either...........tree rats all of them with ground rats too. I'm not prejudicious , I shoot them all. If I don't eat them (tree rats), the foxes will get supper free without working for it.
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